63.21 - Rock glaciers

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Glacier-like tongues of angular talus extending out from a cirque and slowly moving downslope under the effect of gravity and of underlying, fully covered, interstitial ice.

Bibliographie

Devillers P., Devillers-Terschuren J. & Vander Linden C., 2001. PHYSIS Palaearctic Habitat Classification Database. Updated to 10 December 2001. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Bruxelles. (Source)

Østrem, 1974: 229, 247; John, 1983: 61; Whittow, 1984: 459.